Marked No. 1. Reservada. Manuscript in ink. 2pp on a bifolium with blank and docket title. Puerto Cabello, 2 November, 1793.
Marked “reservada”, this secret despatch is signed and subscribed by the Governor of Puerto Cabello (Venezuela) to Excmo. Sr. Don Antonio Valdes. He acknowledges receipt of a secret Royal Order instructing him to harbour a Spanish squadron, which was due to arrive in June, together with a French fleet, under the Spanish Squadron’s command, for the purpose of protecting Spanish commerce in American waters.
